It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of my normal month in review posts. This has been a tough year for me in general, and blogging and even reading (*gasp*) fell to the wayside. Then during August I took a much-needed vacation to Kerr Lake, a place that my grandfather had told meRead more

I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump since this spring. Between moving, losing my grandfather, general work stress, and living in the DC area during this political climate, I just haven’t felt the same energy or enthusiasm about books as I usually do. So when I was at an anime convention digging aroundRead more

Today I’m continuing my being-bad-at-readalongs tradition, and am playing catch-up for weeks 4, 5, and 6 of the Naamah’s Blessing readalong. There will be spoilers for weeks 4, 5, and 6 in the below questions. If you’re spoiler-averse, you may wish to ignore this post. Also participating in the readalong are: Alli at Tethyan Books Lynn at Lynn’s BookRead more

I’m going to keep this review pretty short, as I don’t have much to say about Sunstone Vol. 3 that hasn’t already been said in my reviews of the first two volumes. Quick synopsis of the series: Ally and Lisa are two women who meet online, become friends, and begin a BDSM relationship. Sunstone isn’t like the trainwreckRead more

Mirror: The Mountain is a graphic novel created by Emma Rios and illustrated by Hwei Lim. The story set on an asteroid that has been terraformed by the mage scientists of Synchronia. When the mage scientists sent down animals as test subjects, the sentient asteroid gifted those animals with human-like capabilities. Mirror: The Mountain starts out as aRead more

Next up on my queue of vacation reading–Black Butler! As I mentioned when I reviewed the first volume, Black Butler is one of my all-time favorite anime series, and I’m now reading the manga that it was based on. Black Butler is set in an alternate version of Victorian England. Ciel Phantomhive, the protagonist, isRead more

I picked up the first volume of Wayward on a whim. Mike and I were about to go tent camping, and we figured that reading comics in the tent would be fun, so I ordered a bunch of random trades published by Image. For any non-comic-book-fans, Image is interesting because characters belong to the authors rather thanRead more

Remember during the last readalong when I said that I was really bad at readalongs? Yeah… about that… We’re continuing the Kushiel’s Legacy readalong with the final book of the third trilogy, Naamah’s Blessing. Since I am somewhat behind, this post will contain questions and answers from the first THREE weeks. Week 1 1) Wow! We’reRead more

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence is a fantasy novel unlike any I’ve read before. It’s been a while since I finished this book (it was in the middle of my travels to and from PA a few months back and I was an emotional wreck at the time, so please excuse any fuzziness), but I wantedRead more

Over the past month or so, I’ve been reading Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline Carey with a group of blog friends. Naamah’s Curse is the second book in the third trilogy of the Kushiel’s Legacy series. In a nutshell–at the end of the last book, Moirin, a Celtic bear-witch, saves the life of Bao, a Chinese martial artist. InRead more